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No charges will be brought against two Putnam sheriff's officers who fatally shot a man as he was stabbing his girlfriend in Southeast.

You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline. Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus-Citizen. The year was 1983, and the insert’s red-white-and-black cover saluted a high point of the preceding twelve months with a lead photo of President Ronald Reagan

Voters in select parts of the city on Tuesday trickled into polling locations, choosing two finalists in the open race for City Council District 3, which includes Dorchester and the South End, and deciding to expel Ricardo Arroyo, the incumbent councillor for District 5, which includes Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale. The latter made history, as Arroyo became one of two

With the shutdown of the Red Line’s Ashmont and Mattapan branches a month away, top MBTA officials last Wednesday toured the JFK/UMass transit hub, which is slated to receive a coat of paint and other upgrades during the closure, which is scheduled to start Sat., Oct. 14, and last until Sunday, Oct. 29. The result, T officials have said, will be faster trains, at least on the

Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies” begins with a hint of dread: an electrical outage in the tenacious predawn heat of September 1974. The setting is South Boston, and the whole neighborhood is bracing for a collision. With a daughter on the cusp of her senior year in high school, Mary Pat Fennessy expects to show up at a rally of white parents against the beginning of school